1 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.x:
2 - Rewrite svn fetcher to make adding extra operations easier
3 as part of future SRCDATE="now" fixes
4 (requires new FETCHCMD_svn definition in bitbake.conf)
5 - Change SVNDIR layout to be more unique (fixes #2644 and #2624)
6 - Import persistent data store from trunk
7 - Sync fetcher code with that in trunk, adding SRCREV support for svn
8 - Add ConfigParsed Event after configuration parsing is complete
9 - data.emit_var() - only call getVar if we need the variable
10 - Stop generating the A variable (seems to be legacy code)
12 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.6:
13 - Correctly redirect stdin when forking
14 - If parsing errors are found, exit, too many users miss the errors
15 - Remove supriours PREFERRED_PROVIDER warnings
17 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.4:
18 - Make sure __inherit_cache is updated before calling include() (from Michael Krelin)
19 - Fix bug when target was in ASSUME_PROVIDED (#2236)
20 - Raise ParseError for filenames with multiple underscores instead of infinitely looping (#2062)
21 - Fix invalid regexp in BBMASK error handling (missing import) (#1124)
22 - Don't run build sanity checks on incomplete builds
23 - Promote certain warnings from debug to note 2 level
26 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.2:
27 - Catch truncated cache file errors
28 - Add PE (Package Epoch) support from Philipp Zabel (pH5)
29 - Add code to handle inter-task dependencies
30 - Allow operations other than assignment on flag variables
31 - Fix cache errors when generation dotGraphs
33 Changes in Bitbake 1.8.0:
34 - Release 1.7.x as a stable series
36 Changes in BitBake 1.7.x:
37 - Major updates of the dependency handling and execution
38 of tasks. Code from bin/bitbake replaced with runqueue.py
40 - New task execution code supports multithreading with a simplistic
41 threading algorithm controlled by BB_NUMBER_THREADS
42 - Change of the SVN Fetcher to keep the checkout around
43 courtsey of Paul Sokolovsky (#1367)
44 - PATH fix to bbimage (#1108)
45 - Allow debug domains to be specified on the commandline (-l)
46 - Allow 'interactive' tasks
47 - Logging message improvements
48 - Drop now uneeded BUILD_ALL_DEPS variable
49 - Add support for wildcards to -b option
50 - Major overhaul of the fetchers making a large amount of code common
51 including mirroring code
52 - Fetchers now touch md5 stamps upon access (to show activity)
53 - Fix -f force option when used without -b (long standing bug)
54 - Add expand_cache to data_cache.py, caching expanded data (speedup)
55 - Allow version field in DEPENDS (ignored for now)
56 - Add abort flag support to the shell
57 - Make inherit fail if the class doesn't exist (#1478)
58 - Fix data.emit_env() to expand keynames as well as values
60 - Add perforce fetcher
61 - Make PREFERRED_PROVIDER_foobar defaults to foobar if available
62 - Share the parser's mtime_cache, reducing the number of stat syscalls
63 - Compile all anonfuncs at once!
64 *** Anonfuncs must now use common spacing format ***
65 - Memorise the list of handlers in __BBHANDLERS and tasks in __BBTASKS
66 This removes 2 million function calls resulting in a 5-10% speedup
68 - Update generateDotGraph to use taskData/runQueue improving accuracy
69 and also adding a task dependency graph
70 - Fix/standardise on GPLv2 licence
71 - Move most functionality from bin/bitbake to cooker.py and split into
73 - CVS fetcher: Added support for non-default port
74 - Add BBINCLUDELOGS_LINES, the number of lines to read from any logfile
75 - Drop shebangs from lib/bb scripts
77 Changes in Bitbake 1.6.0:
79 - COW dict implementation from Tim Ansell (mithro) leading
83 Changes in Bitbake 1.4.4:
84 - SRCDATE now handling courtsey Justin Patrin
85 - #1017 fix to work with rm_work
87 Changes in BitBake 1.4.2:
88 - Send logs to oe.pastebin.com instead of pastebin.com
90 - Copy the internal bitbake data before building the
91 dependency graph. This fixes nano not having a
92 virtual/libc dependency
93 - Allow multiple TARBALL_STASH entries
94 - Cache, check if the directory exists before changing
96 - git speedup cloning by not doing a checkout
97 - allow to have spaces in filenames (.conf, .bb, .bbclass)
99 Changes in BitBake 1.4.0:
100 - Fix to check both RDEPENDS and RDEPENDS_${PN}
101 - Fix a RDEPENDS parsing bug in utils:explode_deps()
102 - Update git fetcher behaviour to match git changes
103 - ASSUME_PROVIDED allowed to include runtime packages
104 - git fetcher cleanup and efficency improvements
105 - Change the format of the cache
106 - Update usermanual to document the Fetchers
107 - Major changes to caching with a new strategy
108 giving a major performance increase when reparsing
109 with few data changes
111 Changes in BitBake 1.3.3:
112 - Create a new Fetcher module to ease the
113 development of new Fetchers.
114 Issue #438 fixed by rpurdie@openedhand.com
115 - Make the Subversion fetcher honor the SRC Date
117 Issue #555 fixed by chris@openedhand.com
118 - Expand PREFERRED_PROVIDER properly
119 Issue #436 fixed by rprudie@openedhand.com
120 - Typo fix for Issue #531 by Philipp Zabel for the
122 - Introduce a new special variable SRCDATE as
123 a generic naming to replace CVSDATE.
124 - Introduce a new keyword 'required'. In contrast
125 to 'include' parsing will fail if a to be included
126 file can not be found.
127 - Remove hardcoding of the STAMP directory. Patch
128 courtsey pHilipp Zabel
129 - Track the RDEPENDS of each package (rpurdie@openedhand.com)
130 - Introduce BUILD_ALL_DEPS to build all RDEPENDS. E.g
131 this is used by the OpenEmbedded Meta Packages.
132 (rpurdie@openedhand.com).
134 Changes in BitBake 1.3.2:
135 - reintegration of make.py into BitBake
136 - bbread is gone, use bitbake -e
137 - lots of shell updates and bugfixes
138 - Introduction of the .= and =. operator
139 - Sort variables, keys and groups in bitdoc
140 - Fix regression in the handling of BBCOLLECTIONS
141 - Update the bitbake usermanual
143 Changes in BitBake 1.3.0:
144 - add bitbake interactive shell (bitbake -i)
145 - refactor bitbake utility in OO style
146 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.data module
147 - kill default arguments in methods in the bb.fetch module
148 - the http/https/ftp fetcher will fail if the to be
149 downloaded file was not found in DL_DIR (this is needed
150 to avoid unpacking the sourceforge mirror page)
151 - Switch to a cow like data instance for persistent and non
152 persisting mode (called data_smart.py)
153 - Changed the callback of bb.make.collect_bbfiles to carry
154 additional parameters
155 - Drastically reduced the amount of needed RAM by not holding
156 each data instance in memory when using a cache/persistent
159 Changes in BitBake 1.2.1:
160 The 1.2.1 release is meant as a intermediate release to lay the
161 ground for more radical changes. The most notable changes are:
163 - Do not hardcode {}, use bb.data.init() instead if you want to
164 get a instance of a data class
165 - bb.data.init() is a factory and the old bb.data methods are delegates
166 - Do not use deepcopy use bb.data.createCopy() instead.
167 - Removed default arguments in bb.fetch
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